Birthday Cake Ideas for Hawaiian Parties
Throw a luau-themed birthday party complete with a tropical Hawaiian cake for a lucky birthday boy or girl. Take the recipient's personal favorite cake and frosting flavors into consideration when you are choosing the design to ensure that they are happy with not only the appearance but also the flavor of the cake. Does this Spark an idea?
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Hula Girl Cake
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Top a Hawaiian-themed birthday cake with a plastic hula girl or create a hula girl-shaped cake using a specialty cake pan and a doll pick. A doll pick is a cake topper that resembles the upper body and head of a plastic doll. These cake toppers often are included with dome-shaped pans that create cakes in the shape of the doll's skirt. Decorate the skirt of your doll cake to look like a hula girl's grass skirt by frosting the cake and pressing edible Easter grass, tinted coconut or toasted coconut into the icing. Form a coconut bra for your hula girl by attaching round chocolate candies such as Milk Duds or Junior Mints to the body of the doll pick with icing.
Beach Cake
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Recreate a Hawaiian beach scene on your cake with edible sand and water-colored icing. Crush vanilla wafer cookies or graham crackers into fine crumbs to make edible sand. Place the cookies or crackers into a large plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin, or pulse them in a food processor. Sprinkle the edible sand onto a freshly frosted cake and gently press down on the crumbs. Blue-tinted icing is a simple way to simulate water on your cake, but adding a thin layer of blue decorating gel on top of the icing will give the water a translucent and more realistic appearance. Decorate your beach cake with gummy sea creatures and palm trees fashioned from pretzel rods and green fondant.
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Lei Cake
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Decorate a frosted cake with an edible lei made from flower-shaped cookies and shoestring licorice. Look for flower-shaped cookies with holes in the middle to make stringing them on the licorice easy. Add color to the cookies by frosting the tops with buttercream icing tinted with liquid food coloring. Let the frosted cookies dry for 30 minutes to an hour so that the icing stiffens to prevent it from smearing when you assemble your lei. Arrange the cookie lei on the top of the cake with the frosted side of each flower cookie facing up. Leave the center of the cake uncovered so that you can pipe a Happy Birthday message framed by the cookie lei. Add extra colorful frosted cookies to the sides of the cake if you desire.
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